Special Episode: Adam Kucharski & Proof
Why do we believe what we believe? Is what we believe the truth? How can we convince others of our beliefs? If […]
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Episode 207 Tear Gas: How can a chemical weapon be “humane”?
Tear gas is an expected, normalized part of protests today. But its use in international war is banned. How can that be? […]
Episode 206 Oropouche Virus: More than a smidge worrisome
Though discovered relatively recently, Oropouche virus has been making headlines as an emerging vector-borne infectious disease on the rise. Not transmitted by […]
Episode 205 Cancer Part 4: Where do things stand today?
For the entirety of our species’ history, our approach to cancer has largely been to react, to design new therapies and better […]
Episode 204 Cancer Part 3: How do we treat it?
A century and a half ago, the list of effective cancer treatments was essentially a single entry: surgery. Today, in 2026, you’d […]
Special Episode: Lawrence Ingrassia & A Fatal Inheritance
For centuries, physicians noticed that cancer sometimes ran in families, but until the 1960s, an answer to this mystery remained out of […]
Episode 203 Cancer Part 2: Why does it happen?
Each of our cells can become cancerous. It’s an uncomfortable, yet unavoidable truth. Nor is it a truth restricted to our species […]
Episode 202 Cancer Part 1: What is it?
Cancer has touched every one of us in some capacity, and learning of a diagnosis inspires many more questions than it answers. […]
Special Episode: Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden & Rat City
What happens if you put a bunch of rats in an enclosure and provision them with unlimited food and water? Researcher John […]
Episode 201 Poop Part 2: Flushed away
Poop is an incredibly valuable and massively underutilized resource. However, most of us don’t see it that way because of our evolutionarily […]